Fuuka tells the story of 5 students (initially) who decide to start a band after some events. It is a very common plot in this type of work, but the way it is counted makes all the difference.

Things you need to know:
Seo-sensei(author) has a unique universe in which some of his works take place in parallel, they are:
- Suzuka; prequel to Fuuka (tells the story of his parents); You don't need to read to understand Fuuka..
- Kimi no Iru Machi; Which has no connection with the previous two, but takes place in the same world and sometimes the characters interact in their works.


Strong points:
- All the characters are extremely pleasant (of course, they have their difficult moments, but none hateful).

- The protagonist and most of the supporting characters have real development and growth, you really feel that each situation happened to make you someone better. And yes, understand that he was a NEET and so it starts out super dense, but there is a lot of evolution in that part.

- There is real romance and not those meaningless flirtations of some works that do not advance or take a lifetime to show affection (kiss)


Story 7/10
As I said, it is a very common story and has nothing very original, what makes it good is the way it is told and the development of each situation (yes, it deserves recognition). I will talk about my considerations at the end with spoilers, because I could not give a higher score in this regard.

Art: 9/10
The character designs are fantastic, especially the female ones. I have never seen in any work the care for body curves that this author has. Beautiful faces, fantastic scenery (especially in the presentation) and best of all, the pictures convey a lot of feelings!

Character: 8/10
This should be 10/10, but some of the author's decision making during the work made me step back. Make no mistake, all the main characters are very well developed and some of the support characters to, but in my final remarks I explain why I couldn't give a higher grade.

Enjoyment: 8/10
I read Fuuka twice and once more starting from chapter 130, so you can imagine if it's enjoyable or not. The reason for not being a score of 10 is more a matter of opinion about some events in the work.

Final Conclusion
**There's a lot of SPOILERS, so just read if you're like me. When I get spoiler I feel even more eager to see this happening on paper**

Yuu Haruna is a NEET who meets Fuuka in a funny situation. They become friends, Haruna ends up meeting his bandmates through Fuuka. Then we met Koyuki Hinashi, a childhood friend of Haruna with whom he was always in love and both share the same dream. So far cliché.

* Reasons why I consider the general story (not the character development) to be the weak point of this work

- 2 point:
The author has a courageous decision to kill the female protagonist at the beginning of the work, I thought it was fantastic (although sad) the development of the other characters was fabulous, but then he cowered and created a second Fuuka female main character. In my opinion the outcome of this work should be Fuuka as a kind of motivator for Haruna's songs while he continues his life with his bandmates without ever losing his affection for her (Fuuka) but overcoming his feelings to open up to something new . At this point he would have 2 female characters as possible for his sequel in the novel, Koyuki or Sara. Why don't I consider Shelley? Because she has a solid career that she would have to give up to be part of these possibilities. This question of Haruna overcoming some things due to having met another Fuuka has weakened in my opinion the real value of the character's development.

- 1 point:
Hinashi, Koyuki. As I said, almost all the characters are well developed, but Koyuki is forgotten during a good part of the work after his "main arc". As I said above, for me, she should have been Haruna's romantic couple due to the influence that Fuuka had on both of them. She confessed her feelings to Haruna because she was afraid that Fuuka would steal him, she became stronger after the way she saw Haruna after Fuuka's death, she always supported him. I believe that the feeling of "we are grateful that you existed Fuuka" in a relationship between Koyuki and Haruna would be fantastic and in the end make them lovers, but rivals (with Koyuki on the hedgehog vocals) would give a great outcome to the work. But I believe it was strategic for the author to forget about Koyuki to focus on the development of Fuuka Aoi.


Excuse me because I am not a native English speaker, I hope you enjoy this fantastic work.